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Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

by Alan Fram
| March 3, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats' hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package.

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